Location: Junín 1760
Neighbourhood: Recoleta
Opening: 1822
Schedule: everyday, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
It was the first public cemetery in the city, today is the most elegant and aristocratic. In its almost six hectares, National heroes, presidents, politicians, military men, scientists, artists, and celebrities are buried.
At the beginning of the 18th Century, the "recoletos" monks settled in the land, where in 1732 the "Iglesia del Pilar" was raised, one of the oldest churches in Buenos Aires.
In 1822, after the monk's expulsion, -as a consequence of the general reform of the ecclesiastic order-, the vegetable garden of the convent became into a public cemetery.
Its layout by French engineer Próspero Catelin was redesigned when Torcuato de Alvear was the mayor, in 1881, by architect Juan Antonio Buschiazzo. Italian sculpture Giulio Monteverde made the Christ that dominates the chapel.
The mortal remains of the leaders and political enemies of the 19th Century Rosas and Quiroga; presidents Sarmiento, Mitre, and Yrigoyen; the First Lady and political leader Eva Perón; writers José Hernández, Bioy Casares, Silvina Ocampo, Girondo, and Mallea; Nobel prizewinners Federico Leloir (chemistry) and Saavedra Lamas (peace), among others, are in this cemetery.
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